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Background: Degenerative changes in the knee occur with increasing frequency after the third decade of life. In early osteoarthritis with no mal-alignment of the knee, arthroscopic surgery is an attractive alternative for many elderly patients as it reduces the degree of surgical insult and postoperative rehabilitation with hope of restoration of painless mobility. To study the role of arthroscopic debridement in alleviation of pain in cases of osteoarthritis knee and to evaluate the effectiveness of arthroscopy in diagnosis of osteoarthritis knee and its co-relation with radiological diagnosis. Methods: The present study is cross-sectional study of consecutive cohort of 53 patients. Body mass index was calculated based on height and weight of the patients and from their assessment of X - Rays patients were graded from 0 to 4 based on Kellegren–Lawrence radiological grading method. Selected patient were then assessed by pain domain of the knee society scoring system, which is joint specific score ranging from 0 to 50. These patients were then subjected to arthroscopic examination and debridement. Results: Overall 17 (32.08%) out of total 53 cases studied showed improvement after one year. Majority of patients improved were grade 2 (57.89%) but none of the grade 4 patients showed improvement at 1 year. Conclusions: Arthroscopic debridement does not influence the ongoing pathological process; it is only useful for symptomatic relief in cases of low grade osteoarthritis where it provides pain relief. Conversely, in patient with sever osteoarthritis there is very limited role of arthroscopy.
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AIM: To investigate the efficacy and safety of liduofen in the treatment of patients with osteoarthritis of the knee joint. METHODS: A randomized, double-blind, parallel-controlled, multi-centre study was adapted to compare the efficacy and safety between liduofen and Olfen-75 in 136 patients. Patients were randomly assigned into two groups: liduofen group which was received 75 mg (diclofenac) Liduofen injection (n=69) once a day for seven days and Olfen group which was received 75 mg (diclofenac) Olfen-75 injection (n=67) once a day for seven days. RESULTS: After the treatment, similar improvements for rest pain, pain on exercise, swelling of joint, pressing pain of joint, knee joint bend extend function measured using a 10 cm visual analogue scale was performed in two groups. In Olfen-75 group, the rate of efficacy was 62.69% in the 3rd day, 95.76% in the 5th day and 97.88% in the 7th day. While in liduofen group, the rate of efficacy was 57.97% in the 3rd day, 93.87% in the 5th day and 96.94% in the 7th day. In liduofen and Olfen-75 groups, the progressive rates were 56.72% and 55.07%, respectively. The total improvement rates were 89.85% and 92.54% respectively (P＞0.05), and the rates of side effects were 0% and 1.49%, respectively (P＞0.05). CONCLUSION: Liduofen is an effective and safty drug inthe treatment of patients with osteoarthritis of the knee joint. There is no significant difference on efficacy and safety between the two groups using liduofen and Olfen-75.
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[Objective] We analyzed the clinical findings in 5 patients with osteonecrosis in the medial condyle of the tibia. We also evaluated the usefulness of a tibial percussion test that we developed for examination of differences between the healthy and affected sides in percussion caused by knocking on the tibial rough surface.<BR>[Methods] The subjects were 5 females, who consulted our hospital with a chief complaint of gonalgia and in whom conditions such as osteonecrosis in the medial condyle of the tibia were confirmed by MRI in 4 limbs. In addition to X-p, MRI findings, medical findings by interview, and findings by physical examination were evaluated as clinical findings. Furthermore, the tibial percussion test was performed.<BR>[Results] The causes of pain in the knee joint were unclear in all patients. Pain was severe in 3 patients and marked in 2 patients. Physical examination showed marked tenderness in the medial articular gap and tenderness in the medial condyle of the tibia. In all patients, a difference in the percussion findings between the healthy and affected sides was confirmed by the tibial percussion test.<BR>[Conclusions] These findings indicated that the tibia percussion test in addition to confirmation of characteristic clinical conditions, such as the initial condition of the disease and the severity of tenderness, is useful for the evaluation of conditions of this disease.
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The tender points treatment has been widely used for both treatment and diagnosis, but there have been very few studies that have examined its diagnostic usefulness. Thus, the purpose of this study was to clarify the diagnostic importance of tender points. The subject was a patient who had osteoarthritis of the knee of Meiji University of Oriental Medicine Hospital. The relationship between pressure pain thresholds (PPTs) and symptoms in osteoarthritis of the knee (painful knee motion) were evaluated with the Japanese Orthopaedic Association scale (JOA scale), a knee scale and the subject's knee pain diary (starting pain, flexion pain, walking pain and total pain Wong-Baker faces pain rating scale). After 40 acupuncture treatments, improvement was noted in the symptoms and PPTs. The changes in PPTs were related to the symptoms of the knee (flexion and walking pain). This suggests that changes in PPTs (around the knee) are a useful indicator for evaluating knee pain.
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0.05 ). CONCLUSION: Liduofen is an effective and safty drug inthe treatment of patients with osteoarthritis of the knee joint. There is no significant difference on efficacy and safety between the two groups using liduofen and Olfen 75.